The transnational trend in Hollywood : popular cinema's new transnational aesthetic

From the post-9/11 period up till today we have seen a number of films with a transnational theme and content emerging from Hollywood’s major studios. The growing number of films, containing traces of transnationality and reflecting the ongoing globalization process form strong indications that we are witnessing a new trend within the Hollywood paradigm. These films form a consistent patter that I have chosen to call the Transnational trend in Hollywood. This trend reflects transnational lifeworlds and can be read as a positive consequence of globalization in the sense that its films inspire the mass public to increased cosmopolitanism. However, the main impetus for this trend is economic and it can be said to celebrate globalization rather than critique it